Has a ghost been spotted on Mars? Nasa photo appears to show space ghoul on planet surface

HAUNTING: Has a female ghost been spotted on Mars by eagle-eyed UFO hunters

The NASA photo appears to show a shadowy spirit gliding across the surface of the planet.

YouTube user UFOovni2012 spotted the female ghost on the Nasa-released image last month.

"The woman seems to have breasts," UFOsightingsdaily.com wrote. "Indicated by the shadow on its chest.

"We also see two arms that are lighter in colour and what looks like a head with long hair.

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"Its hard to tell if this is a living being, or a statue of a being from long ago."

The site also claims the figure was watching over the Mars rover from a distance.

Earlier this week excitable space boffins were claiming to have discovered life on Mars after claiming to have spotted a crab on the planet.

The search for alien life was given new impetus after Nasa announced the discovery of Earth's cousin – Kepler-452b.

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“Its hard to tell if this is a living being, or a statue of a being from long ago”

John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, said: "On the 20th anniversary year of the discovery that proved other suns host planets, the Kepler exoplanet explorer has discovered a planet and star which most closely resemble the Earth and our Sun.

“This exciting result brings us one step closer to finding an Earth 2."

John Jenkins, Kepler data analysis lead at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, added: "It has spent six billion years in the habitable zone - longer than the age of Earth - and a considerable time for life to arise somewhere on the earth or in the ocean.